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Human rights dissident jailed ahead of Olympics

Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia has been jailed for three-an-a-half years for 'inciting subversion', ahead of the Olympics. "This is irrational and unfair," said his wife.

Delight at return from Guantanamo Bay

Christians Against Torture has expressed delight at the return to Britain of Omar Deghayes after six years in US custody, five of them at Guantanamo Bay without charge or trial.

Guantanamo survivors’ extradition request dropped

The Spanish government has dropped its attempt to extradite Omar Deghayes and another former Guantanamo Bay detainee Jamil El-Banna. ‘I’m very happy, really delighted,’ said Omar. Christians Against Torture campaigned for his return from Guantanamo for two years, and more than 2,400 people signed a petition in support.

Break a Body, Save a Soul

The scandal of the Christian torturers

A robust rebuttal of attempts to make the use of torture more acceptable in light of the ‘war on terror’ appears in a new book by Baptist minister and broadcaster Roy Jenkins published on September 8th.

Break a Body, Save a Soul warns that attempts to redefine interrogation techniques to permit the infliction of severe pain are undermining basic rights, and being used to justify gross abuse.

Subtitled, Christians and Torture in the world after 9/11, the book makes a passionate appeal to confessing Christians to face up to their responsibilities on the issue.